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يهدف هذا البحث إلى دراسة حادث دبي الذي وقع في 24/10/1910، والناتج عن قيام الضباط والجنود البريطانيين بتفتيش منزلين تعود ملكيتهما إلى ثاني بن خلف، وأحمد بن دلمك. ولقد أدت عملية البحث والتفتيش عن الأسلحة والذخيرة المخبأة حسب اعتقادهم في المنزلين إلى حدوث اشتباك مسلح بين الطرفين أسفر عن مقتل أربعة من البريطانيين، و37 شخصًا من سكان دبي. وقد حمّل موظفو الحكومة البريطانية في منطقة الخليج العربي الشيخ بطي بن سهيل حاكم دبي مسؤولية الحادث، ووجّهوا له إنذارًا يحوي مجموعة من المطالب لتنفيذها خلال 48 ساعة من تاريخ صدوره، وكان من أهمها نصب سارية للمد والجزر في ميناء دبي، ودفع غرامة مالية قيمتها 50 ألف روبية، وتسليم 400 بندقية، وإنشاء مكتب للبريد، ومحطة برق لاسلكية، وأخيرًا القبول بتعيين وكيل سياسي بريطاني في دبي. توصلت الدراسة إلى مجموعة من النتائج كان أهمها حرص المسؤولين البريطانيين على استغلال الحادث في دفع الحكومة البريطانية إلى إحكام سيطرتها وقبضتها على إمارة دبي، وإمارات الساحل المجاورة على الرغم من قبول الشيخ بطي بن سهيل بشروط الإنذار، وتنفيذ معظم ما جاء فيه من مطالب. ; The present study aims at investigating the incident of Dubai which took place on 24/10/1910. This incident was caused by British officers and soldiers who searched two houses owned by Thani bin Khalifah and Ahmed bin Dalmuk. The search revealed some weapons and ammunition which were located beneath the one house. An armed struggle between the two parties occurred; four Britons and thirty-seven local citizens were killed. Accordingly, the British Government in the Persian Gulf region held Shaikh Butti bin Suheil responsible for the incident and sent him an ultimatum including several demands to be fulfilled within 48 hours; the most important of which was erecting a tide pole in the Dubai port, a fine payment of 50 thousand Rupees, handing over 400 rifles, establishing a post office and a telegraph station, and finally accepting the appointment of a British Political Agent in Dubai. The study concludes that the British officials utilized the incident to give privilege to the British Government to take control over the Emirate of Dubai and the adjacent Emirate of the Coastline despite the fact that Shaikh Butti bin Suheil had already accepted the conditions of the ultimatum and started implementing most of it.

Pioneers of the U.S. Automobile Industry uses four separate volumes to explore the essential components that helped build the American automobile industry - the people, the companies and the designs. This volume uses nearly 270 photos to go behind the scenes to explore the people who created car designs that have become famous with the American car industry. Pioneers covered in this edition include: Elmer and Edgar Apperson, Vincent Bendix, James Scripps Booth, Alanson Brush, David Buick, Joseph Cole, Clyde Coleman, Claude Cox, Herbert Franklin and John Wilkinson, Elwood Haynes, Frederick Haynes, Thomas Jeffery, Edward Jordan, Charles King, Howard Marmon, Jonathan Maxwell, Percy Owen, Raymond and Ralph Owen, Andrew Riker, Frank Stearns, Thomas J. and Thomas L. Sturtevant, C. Harold Wills, Alexander Winton.

"A little-know figure now, Sir Henry Dobbs was at the heart of Britain's imperial administrations of Iraq and India in the twilight decades of the Empire. Drawing upon a recently discovered trove of meticulous records and correspondence, in this book Ann Wilks reconstructs the professional life of this career civil servant and Britain's longest serving High Commissioner of Iraq to give a unique picture of life in Britain's most important colony and one of its most newly acquired. The book reveals the nuts and bolts workings of colonial administration, as Dobbs in his letters details the problems Britain encountered as it conquered the former Ottoman province of Mesopotamia during WWI, as well as crises and decisions of singular and lasting significance, such as settling the borders of Imperial India and Afghanistan and establishing those of the future state of Iraq, the first of Britain's colonies or protectorates to become independent, a process which Dobbs oversaw. In his negotiations on the 1921 Anglo-Afghan Treaty, he manoeuvred between the different views in London and Delhi with great dexterity to negotiate alone with the Amir and to arrive at what he considered an acceptable agreement. In the crisis over the 1922 treaty between Britain and Iraq, Dobbs not only disregarded the unhelpful approach recommended by London but risked using his own wholly unauthorised tactics to achieve a breakthrough. The 'man-on-the-spot' perspective offered by Dobbs, written contemporaneously, thus provides a unique source on key international treaties from an insider who was though a man of his time and its prejudices nonetheless an advocate for Iraqi independence, curious about the peoples over whose lives the administration he served ruled, and frequently at odds with attitudes displayed by his famous superiors, such as Sir Percy Cox"--